jakov

science, engineering, space technology, linux, ai, nuclear

[jakov @jakovius]

@MTSlive additional situation detected: ask it to say how many ‘e’s are there in ‘seventeen’.

[Chubby♨️ @kimmonismus]

Today is a dark day for freedom and democracy in Europe. General chat surveillance has been implemented in Brussels. A disgrace.

The so-called Chat Control 1.0 cleared a crucial hurdle in the European Parliament today. This means platforms may once again be allowed to scan private messages, officially on a “voluntary” basis, but in practice this marks the return of indiscriminate monitoring of private communication.

What makes this especially bitter is that a majority of the MEPs who voted were reportedly against it. According to Patrick Breyer, 314 MEPs voted against the regulation, 276 voted in favor and 17 abstained. And yet the rejection failed because it was not enough to have a simple majority of those voting. An absolute majority of all MEPs would have been required.

That is the democratic scandal.

When a majority of those present votes against a proposal and it still passes because a formal threshold is not reached, it does not feel like democratic decision-making to many citizens. It feels like a procedural trick.

And it becomes even more problematic when you look at the context: Chat Control had already been rejected before. Yet the issue was put back on the agenda shortly before the summer break, through an urgent procedure, at a time when absences could become decisive.

This is not just some technical regulation. It goes to the very core of private communication. It is about whether digital messages remain fundamentally private or whether platforms may systematically scan content again, without concrete suspicion, without a court order and without any individual cause.

A free society must not turn private communication into a potential surveillance zone. Anyone who takes digital fundamental rights seriously cannot accept millions of innocent people being placed under general suspicion.

Today, a dangerous signal was sent: fundamental rights can be hollowed out through procedural logic, timing and political tricks. Not through an open, clear and honest majority, but through a system in which absence effectively helps the supporters.

This is a dark day for Europe.

Not because the fight is over, but because today showed how easily digital fundamental rights come under pressure when surveillance logic, symbolic politics and institutional tricks come together.

Anyone who wants a free internet, anyone who wants to protect private communication and anyone who takes democracy seriously should talk about this.

Share this issue. Inform yourself. Look at who voted how. And never forget: freedom rarely disappears all at once. It disappears step by step, often in technical details, often in complicated procedures and often exactly when too few people are watching.

[jakov @jakovius]

@PyZooKo @jxnlco Triple, actually.

[jakov @jakovius]

yep, gpt-live can’t do the legendary “strawberry”-type count.
Fails consistently on repeated question of “How many ‘e’s are there in ‘seventeen’?”, even at high reasoning effort @OpenAI

[jason @jxnlco]

FUCK

[Fidias Panayiotou @Fidias0]

CHAT CONTROL IS COMING

Even though most Members of the European Parliament have voted to REJECT Chat Control, we have not been able to reach the absolute majority that was needed (361 Members).

This is a sad day for Europeans.

[jakov @jakovius]

@projectsalto so, you will be familiar with this one: “wen hop”??

[jakov @jakovius]

@TheSpacePlumber Energy supply seriously bottlenecked. Nuclear could enable some part of demand, but slow to build due to dumbass regulations. It is always sunny in space. Just launch solar/gpus/radiators LTNT.

[jakov @jakovius]

@Polymarket Says one of the men in the high castles. Bro, you first. Lead with example. I am optimistic they will culturally enrich Vatican for the years to come.

[jakov @jakovius]

@tri_dao Paid shill alert

[jakov @jakovius]

@amasad Paid shill

[the tiny corp @__tinygrad__]

@amasad https://t.co/11WMw0Od6a

[jakov @jakovius]

This is some cool and interesting new naming from @OpenAI . New GPT models! Looking forward to digging into the docs and trying out!

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Introducing a limited preview of GPT-5.6 Sol, our next generation frontier model, as well as GPT-5.6 Terra, a balanced model for efficient, everyday work, and GPT-5.6 Luna, a fast and affordable model for high-volume work.

https://t.co/OoM83SyISN

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Introducing a limited preview of GPT-5.6 Sol, our next generation frontier model, as well as GPT-5.6 Terra, a balanced model for efficient, everyday work, and GPT-5.6 Luna, a fast and affordable model for high-volume work.

https://t.co/OoM83SyISN

[jakov @jakovius]

@AndrewParsonson Finally something where Europe is lower in regulation: No ITAR restrictions on this photo 🙂

[jakov @jakovius]

Now you will be able to summon the devil in any chat. Claude is the new “@grok, is this true”, outside X, in work chats.

[Claude @claudeai]

Introducing Claude Tag, a new way for teams to work with Claude.

In Slack, Claude joins as a team member with access to the channels and tools you choose. Tag Claude in and delegate tasks to it while you focus on other work.

[jakov @jakovius]

@karpathy That has already been done long ago, with @grok tag.
Now people will flood the chats with“@claude, is this true??”.

[jakov @jakovius]

@DegenApeDev @AIatAMD @realGeorgeHotz @comma_ai @__tinygrad__ Haha, awesome. Was that related to the PS3 jailbreaking?

[jakov @jakovius]

@AfonsoJFG Erm, 250 millions? Could you remind me, what is the total population of England? @CommunityNotes

[vaxry @vaxryy]

It's important to remind everyone that ID verification and social media bans are not to protect children, but another device in the government's arsenal to slowly control the population and move towards authoritarianism.

Unless people actually start protesting against this, nothing will change.

For a politician, the primary goal is to stay in power and make money. Tracking people online is a great help in achieving that.

Crying "it's for the kids" will not help when every device nowadays comes with parental control tools which are better and better every day. Plus, parents are the ones that should decide how their kid should be raised, not the government.

From the Computer Science point - it's simply impossible for an ID verification system to have all three at once:
- anonymity: Site doesn't know who you are, government can't trace back your account to your name.
- non-linkability: Your visit on Site A cannot be linked to your visit on Site B
- non-shareability: You can't post some "token" everyone can copy and use to pretend to be an adult

A working system for anonymous age verification is simply impossible, mathematically. The solution? The damn parental control tools on every modern phone. Parents set up screen time limits, or app restrictions. Or, better yet, actually talk to your kid! Crazy, right?

IDK about the UK, but for example in Poland, we literally have it written in the constitution, that parents are the ultimate authority over how they want to raise their kids. It's not the government's job to police what a kid can, and cannot access online, even more so when we move away from "actually illegal (gambling, for example)" to "idk man we (the govt) think its bad".

Push for parents' awareness of parental control tools, the dangers of the internet, and make parents actually know how to parent their kids. After that, it's none of the govt's business.

Unfortunately it seems that more and more countries are giving up those freedoms and falling for the boil-the-frog approach, and might realize far too late. The EU is my last bastion of hope at this point, and even that is... not excellent in this regard at the moment.